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Kolkata Dreaming by Matthew Busch

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Time for Texas

I got back to Texas about a month ago after finishing up a year-long Fulbright grant in India, shooting in the Azores for a month and then visiting friends and colleagues in New York for a couple weeks. When I returned finally to Texas, I ran straight out to the oil fields of the Permian Basin for Bloomberg Businessweek. They ran a story on the current shale boom happening there. It’s a topic I’ve been covering for some time so I love the chance to spend more time out there. We needed an overhead so eventually I found Kyle and this trailer-riding helicopter that I swear he built himself. I made him circle back over the same patch of grass at least five times before I thought we had it. West Texas makes for some beautiful scenery.

People always ask me, ‘What’s the most interesting place you’ve been.’ And I love to respond that people are what interest me the most. This guy is a self-described social-media preacher out in Permian and I’ll withhold his name for obvious reasons here. After he got down from “Riding the bull,” as he liked to call it, he proceeded to give me a sermon on why he moved out of Waco and kicked his drug habit to work on trucks in the oil patch. I could have stayed there all day.

Here’s how it ran in the magazine...

I’ll be in Texas spending time with family and taking assignment work until I head back to India sometime in January. I’ll also be in the editing booth as I’ve got a short doc that I’ve been wanting to cut for some time. Until next time.